Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Ethical behavior refers to actions consistent with personal principles and commonly held values in your business community. Build positive psychological capital to sustain your business. We have all seen examples of new ventures that fail , despite large infusions of venture capital, and high-potential new technologies.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 17, 2021

When it comes to my job, after practicing venture capital for seven years under normal circumstances, it was instructive to get thrown into this new scenario, because I don’t think we’ll ever fully “return to normal.” There’s just so much community and learning-by-osmosis (or serendipity) that comes from being together.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Another approach is to ask the investor for references, where their involvement has made a real difference, leading to success. Check for positive or negative news articles, press releases, relationships, and support of community organizations. Personally visit another startup funded by this investor.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

According to the Angel Capital Association: Angels (private money) invest in 55,000 startups each year versus 1,500 companies by VC (venture capital) funding. Look for community supporters and ask around about space. Make your invitations open so people who are not angels can still refer and bring friends.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2023

Live operations refer to the ongoing management and maintenance of a game after its initial launch, and can include things like events, updates, and community management. billion in 2022.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

Ethical behavior refers to actions consistent with personal principles and commonly held values in your business community. Build positive psychological capital to sustain your business. We have all seen examples of new ventures that fail , despite large infusions of venture capital, and high-potential new technologies.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

“This investment will accelerate our work to build the metaverse and create spaces where players can have fun with friends, brands can build creative and immersive experiences and creators can build a community and thrive.” Animoca Brands is a Hong Kong-based game software company and venture capital company founded 2014 by Yat Siu.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 22, 2014

You''ll get a venture capital analyst from a brand name firm who has just recently taken his job talking about what makes a company successful. Sometimes, I see people on venture capital panels that aren''t even VCs! In common parlance, "VC" refers to someone who is an investor--who can do a deal.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 14, 2011

“Never was so much owed by so many to so few” – these famous words were uttered in a wartime speech by Sir Winston Churchill, referring to pilots of the Royal Air Force in defense of Britain during World War II. “Asia is well known as the current region of growth, with rising inflow of funds and investments.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2009

This is part of my ongoing Raising Venture Capital (VC) series. When people refer to a strategic investor they are usually talking about an investor that comes from the industry you serve as opposed to an independent venture capital investor. The reality is that their core business is not venture capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2016

Another approach is to ask the investor for references, where their involvement has made a real difference, leading to success. Check for positive or negative news articles, press releases, relationships, and support of community organizations. Personally visit another startup funded by this investor.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

A solid marketing strategy shows more than just a long term commitment to effective advertising and self-promotion; it shows investors that the company is determined to gain traction amongst its target demographic or the community it’s meeting the demands of, while on a mission to retain consumers, leading to maximum ROI in the long run.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

2:20] Why the Lewis Carroll reference? [2:59] 6:09] Do you refer to yourself as a marketplace almost or more of a membership organization? [12:50] 16:24] What type of networking have you found the community responds to? [18:16] And why the Lewis Carroll reference? 5:13] What’s been the biggest challenge? [6:09]

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

This quarter they interviewed me as part of it on Quarterly VC Update: Brad Feld on the State of Venture Capital Investing. At the early stages, raising the first $2m tends to be straightforward in most geographies that have meaningful startup communities. Each quarter Cooley does a VC market update. Are you a bull or bear?

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

Austin-Based Venture Capital Firms There are a eleven venture capital firms based in Austin that are actively investing today, six of which are first funds. VC Firms Actively investing in Austin Companies Finally, there are a group of venture capital firms that are not based in Austin that are active investors here.

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David Teten

AUGUST 15, 2013

The most common ways in which the Fortune 500 are working with the startup community at scale is through corporate VC arms, contests, packages of benefits geared to startups, and accelerator programs. I worked with our intern team to look for the Fortune 500 companies making the strongest effort to reach out to the tech startup community.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 14, 2013

Cheaper rents could make it a great place for the creative community and there''s no reason why it shouldn''t become as popular a destination for out of town events the same way that Austin has. We used Dumbo as a reference and talked about how the critical mass of Two Trees buildings created a neighborhood with multiple destinations.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

As an entrepreneur, joining organizations or networking groups can allow you to connect with like-minded people who can provide you with information and support, and refer customers to you. One of the best ways to promote your business and increase its name recognition is by joining business organizations and/or communities or associations.

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Up and Running

JULY 28, 2020

Some only allow funding for a limited time, some require you to meet your goal to receive any funds and others serve as long-term community sites. Peer-to-peer lending is also referred to as social lending which essentially allows individual people to borrow and lend money to and from one another. Venture Capital and Angel Investment.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

He had joined a young startup in LA called HauteLook and was interested in getting to know the local tech community. After that you could tell that Greg was really “all in” on the LA technology community. Community builders. I made some reference calls. So why Greg and why now? Quantitative & analytical.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 8, 2014

Look across virtually any industry and you’ll see great examples where traditional spaces are being disrupted by software, access to data, and massive online communities. Thus, it should come as no surprise that we are now seeing Venture Capital being disrupted by these forces as well. Today, the boom of information (i.e.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 1, 2020

All of these are lofty goals for the venture capital firm, to be sure. He was clearly very smart, so his parents tasked him with performing a lot of the jobs that we now refer to as “outbound marketing” ? Based on that criteria, the venture capital firm offers funding as low as $500,000 and as high as $15 million.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 30, 2013

The reference to Andy Dunn and me is responding to this post I wrote (in response to Andy’s earlier post). The first time I met Andy Dunn he was working for the venture capital firm Maveron. Raising Venture Capital Tech Market Analysis' But this one is for Dorrian. And his Tesla Statue project.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

I recently sat down with Troy Carter to talk about what he does and why he believes it is applicable to venture capital. Influencers are inundated with requests for their time and have to develop filters of whom they trust and therefore who can refer them deals. And he said it so elequently.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 28, 2017

“What results is a steady stream of well-trained engineers, business people, marketers, researchers; a vibrant venture capital community; a highly available stock market appetite for stock flotations; and people with experience in business, including how and why business failures happen,” says Vint Cerf of Google.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

TL:DR : This post aims to recap significant changes in the venture capital industry over the past ten years, and then make some [biased] predictions as to major forces at play in the next five years. However, all three shifts are related and can be summed up simply as: Geeks are Taking Over Venture Capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2014

Tom Perkins is one of the founding members of the venerable venture capitalist firm Kleiner Perkins. He just had his Mitt Romney moment and his name will forever be etched in the collective consciousness of the tech community for this terribly insensitive and tone deaf letter to the Wall Street Journal. ”". Kleiner Perkins.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The venture capital landscape in Asia is varied and complex, as most of the active firms on the continent are concentrated in just a few areas. As I touched on before, China and India have the most mature VC communities. China’s top dogs include the likes of GGV Capital , Sequoia China , IDG , Qiming , and a handful of others.

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Gust

DECEMBER 22, 2011

This is often referred to in the creative community as a “ work-for-hire agreement.”. Get a contract , if only a simple one-pager, stating that everything the contractor produces on the company’s dime is the property of the startup.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2017

It’s understandable, then, that the term “unicorn” has come to be used routinely in the world of business funding to refer to those rare and beautiful privately funded startups—especially in the tech space—that have reached the upper echelon of valuation, being valued at over $1 billion. at around 27 million. But is that still the case?

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 20, 2015

For a quick frame of reference test, try these three: Silicon Valley: A Place or A State of Mind. Recently, in my book Startup Communities , I asserted that you can create a startup community in any city in the world. Silicon Valley is a religion, just like Crossfit is a religion. Losing My Religion.

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

Education plays a major role in venture capital. But indirect reciprocity plays a powerful role in online communities, such as open-source development. Crowdfunding communities are no different. Before launching your campaign, build your community reputation. Reference an Inexpensive Hedonic Product.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 23, 2011

The angel then introduces the entrepreneur to his or her wealthy friends and business connections who, based on the good reputation of the referring angel, also invest. This venture capital financing - usually between $3 and $10 million - is the first of a number of rounds of outside investment over a period of three to five years.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2013

Jim Hornthal splits his time between venture capital, entrepreneurship and education. The first month of customer discovery for most of their initiatives relied too much on conversations within the Princeton University community itself (fellow students, faculty and admin).

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abovethecrowd.com

MAY 28, 2014

In early April, Neel Mehta of Google first publicly reported the web vulnerability that we now refer to as the Heartbleed bug. Enter HackerOne, a shared community marketplace that brings together the Internet’s leading web sites, with a community of the Internet’s leading researchers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

Bevy is Emerging as a Leader in Software for Building Virtual Communities?—?with with $15 million to Prove It The venture capital world has started firing up a few cylinders again and looking for businesses that it believes will help us all succeed in ways that resonate with new ways of working as we begin to return to work.

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